Logarithmic Cartography

[radium]

The Classic: "Powers of Ten", by Charles and Ray Eames
(RealPlayer Stream of original ~9min film)
(interactive Java Applet lookalike from FSU)

Most Artistic: NASA Landsat "Earth as Art" Project
(Project Homepage)

Most Compressed: Logarithmic Maps of the Universe
(at least, about a gigaparsec's worth)

Comments

[lars_larsen]

Since powers of ten came out, we can now go 3 more powers of ten smaller. They stopped at the proton :(

Re:

[radium]

Right. And in Greek, "atom" means "uncuttable". :)

"Distance from the center of the earth"

[odditory]

Aristotle would be proud of the log map of the universe!!

too lazy to write an e mail

[odditory]

Re: our conversation in CO on OSX and unix.

Check the X window implementation on OSX

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/x11/

No problem running unix and linux apps on OSX.

Now I am 100% where I am getting my next machine.

Question is, laptop or desktop?